Great Summer Reads - Day 3

Kaci Morgan is the author of The Queen Immortal Series. She found her passion for writing later in life, but for the last eight years she has worked on honing the craft to the best of her ability by attending local classes, seminars, and reading books about the craft and in the genre. 

As a wife and mother, she feels that writing has helped her to find a sense of purpose, and to understand that hard work and determination are the keys to unlocking our dreams.

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Secrets can be agents of destruction, Queen Beza learns after three-hundred years of ruling. Unable to produce an heir, and on the hunt for a sibling who should have never been born, Beza struggles to understand what the Gods and Goddesses have planned for her. Unable to come to terms with past discretions, she pushes away what might be her last chance at love, focusing only on the murder and betrayal going on all around her.

Immortal as Beza might be, she soon finds her life, and queendom crumbling underneath the burden of a brother, so named the lost king, who holds more legitimacy to the throne than she herself. Can she find him before his shadow becomes her devastation?

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Author Interview:

1.     What is your favorite book that is not yours?  

a.     This might just be impossible for me to answer. With each season of my life I have had a new favorite. So over the course of my life I can't say that I have one favorite above all (though Jane Eyre is definitely up there). However, over the last year I have enjoyed reading The Sevenwater Series by Juliet Mariller so much so that it has influenced my writing in a positive way.

2.     Do you write in multiple genres? 

a.     Currently, I only write in fantasy. But I would love to tackle historical fiction in the not too distant future. Which genre is your favorite to write? N/A

3.     How young were you when you started writing? 

a.     26 years young 

4.     If you could meet any author, past or present, who would it be and why? 

a.     I would love to meet Juliet Marillier. She became a successful author later in life, and only after a few years of writing. I would love to know what brought her to her decision to pick up pen and paper, and what choices she made that led her to success.

5.     How long does it take you to write a book, and what was your fastest book to write? 

a.     It took me about 6 years to write my very first book (that was including a year hiatus that I took after I had my third child). My second book took one year to write, and I have been working on my third book (a sequel to Queen Immortal) for six months now. Hopefully this momentum will continue!

6.     What is your favorite thing to do in the summertime? 

a.     Although I enjoy most things about summer, my favorite is a toss-up between camping along Mirror Lake Highway (we just became RV owners so it should be a new experience this year), and enjoying all that Independence Day has to offer. The 4th of July is one of my favorite days of the year, and to me, represents the pinnacle of summertime and all that it means to live in this great country. 

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Great Summer Reads - Day 2

Karlie Lucas is a preschool teacher by day and a writer/artist by night.

A graduate of Southern Utah University, Karlie received a B.A. in Creative Writing, with a minor in art. She is a member of Sigma Tau Delta, The International English Honor Society, as well as ANWA, the American Night Writers Association.

Karlie is interested in all things magical and mysterious, especially elves and dragons. She is an avid fan of J.R.R. Tolkien and J.K. Rowling.

When not writing, Karlie can often be found drawing, baking, watching her favorite old school shows, or just spending time with her family.

She currently resides in Dallas, Texas with her husband and a cat named Kally

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The Revenants are coming. 

Only recently woken from their centuries' long slumber, the dragons are unprepared to face them. But when a legend is uncovered, revealing the existence of a lost tribe of mages, hope flickers to life. 

The race is on as Tyler Durand and Anwen Kaida rush to find this missing tribe while the others prepare for their last stand. But time and numbers are against them, and Anwen fears that even if they find the lost mages, it will be too late. 

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Author Interview:

1.     What is your favorite book that is not yours?
It really depends on the mood I'm in, but I tend to go back to Ann McCaffrey's Harper Hall Trilogy. 

2.     Do you write in multiple genres? Which genre is your favorite to write?
I do write in multiple genres. At present, it's primarily YA fantasy/fiction, but I also have a children's picture book out. And I plan on going into more adult thriller/romance/adventures.

3.     How young were you when you started writing?
I'd say I was probably when I was about five or six, after I'd taught myself how to read.

4.     If you could meet any author, past or present, who would it be and why?
I would love to meet Tolkien. He's like the father of modern fantasy, and I really would love to pick his brain about world building and so forth.

5.     How long does it take you to write a book, and what was your fastest book to write?
It usually takes me between 6-8 months to write the first draft. The fastest I've written one was in about  a week, which happened to be my children's book.

6.     What is your favorite thing to do in the summertime?
In the summertime, I pretty much do what I do most of the rest of the year: read, write, bake, craft, and have the occasional dip in the pool or random road trip.

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Great Summer Reads - Day 1

My name is Robyn Echols. Zina Abbott is the pen I use for my historical novels. I’m a member of Women Writing the West and Western Writers of America. I currently live with my husband in California’s central valley near the “Gateway to Yosemite.”

I love to read, quilt, work with digital images on my photo editing program, and work on my own family history.

I am a blogger. In addition to my own blog, I blog for several group blogs including the Sweet Americana Sweethearts blog, which I started and administer.

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Zina Abbott's first three books in the multi-author series, 

Sweethearts of Jubilee Springs.

Book 3 - Aaron's Annulment Bride:

Andrea married Aaron so he could get his mining company house, but now she wants an annulment.

Book 6 - Cat's Meow:

Catherine immediately falls in love with tall, hunky miner, Harold. She wants to marry him, but there is one "meowly" little problem.

Book 7 - Bargain Bessie:

Brought to Jubilee Springs after the death of her mother, Bessie, a confirmed spinster meets Zeb, a decisive, impatient rancher who is NOT pushing forty.

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Author Interview:

What is your favorite book that is not yours?

            There are too many to mention. I like to read a full series of books. One book I really enjoyed was Shanna Hatfield’s Garden of her Heart. Another was Jane Kirkpatrick’s All She Left Behind. I also love any books by Sandra Dallas.

Do you write in multiple genres? Which genre is your favorite to write?

            I write variations of historical fiction. In addition to American Historical Romance, which is my favorite, I have written World War II fiction and a contemporary three generation book that went back to the Vietnam War. Under my real name I have written time travel fiction and some contemporary.

How young were you when you started writing?

            When I was about 11 or 12, instead of watching television with the rest of the family, I stayed down in what my mother called my ‘dungeon,’ my downstairs bedroom, and wrote stories. I started writing novels and short stories on and off through the years, but seriously started publishing novels in 2012.

If you could meet any author, past or present, who would it be and why?

            Thanks to my membership in writing organizations I have met many great authors. As far as authors from the past, I would like to have met Juanita Brooks and Helen Hunt Jackson. They both wrote of conditions of their times that affected women.

How long does it take you to write a book, and what was your fastest book

to write?

            My first book, including research, took me a year to write. I usually need two to three months for a book between 30K and 50K words.

            My fastest book to write was Dead Set Delphinia. I had a five week deadline, a title (originally Determined Delia) and mention of her character having been made in one of the books in the collection I am featuring today. Most of my novellas in this series ran 25K to 38K words. Dead Set Delphinia ended up being almost 67K words. One day alone I wrote over 13K words. They were not all keepers, but it got the story on the page to be edited.

What is your favorite thing to do in the summertime?

            I love to visit historical state and national parks including their books stores, and museums. I’m big on ghost towns and old frontier forts.

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Review of My Fair Lacey & A Perfect Fit!

Lacey has dreamed of opening a restaurant for years - but first, she needs a loan. When Garrett Halifax, her roommate's Harvard-educated brother, offers to help her clean up her appearance and manner to impress the bank manager, she jumps at the chance. She makes mistake after mistake, and perhaps the biggest mistake is falling for sexy Garret.

This modern retelling of My Fair Lady offers all the humor of the original movie with a splash of romance thrown in.

Jojo Halifax, Lacey's roommate, believes that winning Echo Ridge's float competition is just what her fledgling art career needs. And if that means giving her ex-boyfriend, Anthony, a second chance so she can be a designer on his team, well, she's willing to make the sacrifice. But when a lost bet leads to a blind date with her brother's friend, Wyatt, she begins to have second thoughts about second chances. Wyatt is handsome and charming and just might have been paid to make her forget about Anthony. Is falling for his charm worth the risk or should she take Anthony back again?

Romantic comedy lovers will eat these two novellas up!

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I adored this book!!

I love the modern twist on My Fair Lady in My Fair Lacey - plus I liked the ending of this much better than the movie ending. I truly enjoyed the banter between the characters and the growth in their relationship even though it was a novella. The same goes for the second book too - A Perfect Fit. Janette did an incredible job of creating witty dialog and sweet moments as the characters learn and grow together in both stories. I laughed out loud several times during each novella - plus felt the frustration, confusion, and even moments of sadness with each character. They were so real and so relatable, and I adored them.

The stories are connected in that they have the same characters, but the focus in on different couples each time. And the Epilogue was perfect! And not in the way you think of all dreamy and swoony, but perfect for the characters and their situations. I will absolutely read this book again and again. I highly recommend this book. It is clean, fun, and a fabulous quick summer read!!

Note - I received this book as an ARC and voluntarily reviewed it. All opinions and statements are my own and were not influenced by a 3rd party or the author in any way

Janette Rallison is old. Don’t ask how old, because it isn’t polite. Let’s just say she’s older than she’d like to be and leave it at that.

Janette lives in Chandler, Arizona with her husband, five children and enough cats to classify her as “an eccentric cat lady.” She did not do this on purpose. (The cats, that is; she had the children on purpose.) Every single one of the felines showed up on its own and refuses to leave. Not even the family’s fearless little Westie dog can drive them off.

Since Janette has five children and deadlines to write books, she doesn’t have much time left over for hobbies. But since this is the internet and you can’t actually check up to see if anything on this site is true, let’s just say she enjoys dancing, scuba diving, horse back riding and long talks with Orlando Bloom. (Well, I never said he answers back.)

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Trials of the Heart review

Some would say the heart can only take so much. Some would say that the heart can endure many things. Still others might say that the right heart is strong enough for anything. 

Follow Devon's journey as she faces life. Will her heart endure the trials set before her? Only time will tell.

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This book was a good narrative of how life can throw trials at you, and it's a matter of how you respond and what you choose to do with those trials. Live is not all rainbows and butterflies, but full of trials that teach us and move our lives forward. In this narrative, there are many examples of moments of heartache and choices that lead a life in different directions depending on the reaction to these trials. Devon, the Main Character, has many moments of trials and choices. She chooses to make the best of her situations and move forward even though it was hard and frustrating. It's a story of hope through trial and of choosing happiness despite heartache. It's an easy, enjoyable read.

I am a bibliophile book dragon who lives with her tech wizard husband and two youngest minions. I am a mother of three, however, and have one amazing grandson. We all reside in the beautiful Redding, California.

I am first and foremost a reader and an eclectic one at that. I own books in many various genres and will continue to hunt for more! I became a published author in 2017. My debut novella "Trials of the Heart" released in September of 2017. Since then, I have taken on many various projects. Writing is no longer just a hobby but is now a career.

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